Low-Dose CT Image Denoising Using Parallel-Clone Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06724v1
• Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 05:21:33 GMT
• Title: Low-Dose CT Image Denoising Using Parallel-Clone Networks
• Authors: Siqi Li and Guobao Wang
• Abstract summary: We propose a parallel-clone neural network method that exploits the benefit of parallel input, parallel-output loss, and clone-toclone feature transfer. The proposed model keeps a similar or less number of unknown network weights as compared to conventional models but can accelerate the learning process significantly.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Deep neural networks have a great potential to improve image denoising in low-dose computed tomography (LDCT). Popular ways to increase the network capacity include adding more layers or repeating a modularized clone model in a sequence. In such sequential architectures, the noisy input image and end output image are commonly used only once in the training model, which however limits the overall learning performance. In this paper, we propose a parallel-clone neural network method that utilizes a modularized network model and exploits the benefit of parallel input, parallel-output loss, and clone-toclone feature transfer. The proposed model keeps a similar or less number of unknown network weights as compared to conventional models but can accelerate the learning process significantly. The method was evaluated using the Mayo LDCT dataset and compared with existing deep learning models. The results show that the use of parallel input, parallel-output loss, and clone-to-clone feature transfer all can contribute to an accelerated convergence of deep learning and lead to improved image quality in testing. The parallel-clone network has been demonstrated promising for LDCT image denoising.

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